Treble tuning for elderly clients

David Love davidlovepianos at comcast.net
Mon Mar 13 17:57:54 MST 2006


That's happened to me before.  Someone calls me back and says "this note
doesn't sound right", and I say, "compared to what?", and they say, I don't
know, it just doesn't sound in tune (the unison was clean).  

I also recently lost a long term customer unbeknownst to me until much later
because I started tuning his two pianos in unison using a Verituner and it
turned out he didn't like the tuning as much as when I tuned it by aurally.
I guess I was flattered...well, sort of.  

I did give up the VT not long after...not that there's anything wrong with
it.  

David Love
davidlovepianos at comcast.net



One word of caution: I worked very hard to clean up a really lousy, noisy 
treble on a Baldwin console. The lady called me back, unsatisfied. 
Pleased to say it's a very rare event.) I went back and it sounded aok to 
me. She claims I killed the tone of her piano and ruined the sound. Hasn't 
had me back, either.

Some times, we can be too smart by half. Maybe we shouldn't be afraid to 
interview the clients more thoroughly as to their preferences, what they 
hear, what bugs them, etc., rather than just tuning the piano the way we 
like it.

Alan Barnard
Thinking out loud in Salem, MO

Salem, Missouri
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